We’ve been looking for excuses to use our Arduino Ethernet shield in more projects recently; we had the idea today to see if we could get it monitoring our network servers and report the status of them to Twitter. It was actually surprisingly easy; we had the Twitter posting code from the previous project and … Read more
Let’s get started with the second part of the Arduino programming series. This time we’ll be talking about memory management on the Arduino, how to use it and how best to manage it – showing you how to free up memory and guidelines for programming that will help you reduce your memory footprint on the … Read more
Since we post up lots of Arduino related content on the website, it only makes sense that we have some sort of tutorial series to follow. This will start from the basics to the more advanced subjects, hopefully expanding your knowledge of the Arduino. The Requirements 1x Arduino Compatible Board (Uno, Duemilanove, Leonardo, Mega etc.) … Read more
It’s that time of the week! We’ve been playing around with the Ethernet shield again and this time we’ve come up with an article about creating a webserver from scratch; using the Arduino SD/Ethernet Shield. This article will show you how to serve files from the SD Card file system and use Javascript to get … Read more
We purchased one of these very cheap, very cool 84×84 LCD backlit screens off of eBay a couple of weeks ago. It’s a very nice product for adding visual elements to your projects at a very low price. We paid £3.89 for the screen and it was delivered a few days later. Take a look … Read more